Earl Wilson

Earl Wilson was the police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana during the 1960s.

Biography
Earl Wilson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a white Protestant family, and he served on the police force for years. By 1968, he was the chief of police in New Orleans, and he was a very racist and conservative person. That year, he was interviewed by Southern Union leader and radio personality Remy Duvall, claiming that the heat led to the war between Lincoln Clay and the Marcano crime family. However, after Clay killed Duvall, Wilson believed that African-Americans were responsible, and he told a reporter that he wanted them to be rounded up and shot.